Day 253 Nubeena Friday 7th October 2011

Hi Folks,
Allegedly a day off. We left belatedly and drove to Hobart. We called in at the Cambridge shopping precinct where we combined our own shopping with the resorts.
We visited K&D Hardware where i picked up travelling essentials such as 5 minute Araldite, epoxy putty and and 28AA Duracell batteries for $12. Susan bought goods the resort. We then journeyed to Anaconda looking at replacements for out drifter kitchen. We are not quite sure what we are going to do in this area. The wooden kitchen is heavy but once set up very stable and works well. However it is a buggar to store stuff in when it is packed away. We were thinking a light fold up unit and a couple of storage boxes but it is still up for discussion. I bought a couple of cheap retractable gizmos to use on my Swiss Army knife when it falls from its pouch. I have come close to losing it a couple of times. No journey to Cambridge would be complete without a trip to the Hardley Normal bargain bins. I picked up some cheap items that may be useful one day.
Onto Hobart pausing to pick up new lights for the Resort entry to replace the vandalised ones. I almost feel like drawing a target on them. Susan managed to sort out the bank and Optus in the same hour truly a miracle. She also bought some groovy shoes that will no doubt feature in a picture shortly. I kept my hand in my pocket for a change. We filled the car fridge with meat for tomorrows BBQ.
We decided to have an early tea and almost ventured to the Drunken Admiral until I read some less than glowing reviews online. We went to Mures a fish place on the waterfront. Downstairs was a a bit busy and they took down the whole rainbow trout with salad and chips sign for $19.90 while we were queued so we went upstairs to the restaurant which was nearly booked out. We had a pretty good meal, the service was excellent, our chowders were a bit on the cool side, however the white wine was served at the right temperature for a change. We both had prawns of different flavours and sorbets for dessert. We left and arrived a Sorell for the joys of food shopping around 8. Woolworths were out of bread so I was detoured to Coles. We then headed home. A suicidal possum did just that with Susan driving. It was sitting on the right hand side of the road, Susan slowed and moved to the left prompting it to run straight under the drivers side wheel which was followed by the bump as it passed under the back wheel.
Not the most exciting of days off.

cheers Simon